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Liberté, Égalité, Actualité* (Slogan France 24).
Understanding Media (Book title by Marshall McLuhan).
* These word games around the slogan of the Citizens' Revolution (in the 18th century) are funny: the first two terms are always used, plus a third one at random, which is never the right one. Perhaps the late modern world is just searching for the right term(s)...?
The starting point of this page is that (as a [former] journalist) I'm not very fond of today's media and that I'd like better media/news. Recently, I've increasingly become a media critic (not politically motivated, but purely philosophically motivated). This is - like nearly everything today - a double-edged sword. There are good, not so good, and even very bad things in our media. What bothers me about today's media? In principle, we have a free media (meaning: the media can do almost whatever they want [as the self-declared fourth branch of government, mind you]! Why didn't Goethe like the media so much? He said: "They serve the times." We can assume that the media have a lot to do with the current zeitgeist - how much they merely follow it, and how much they themselves influence and bring it about, is another matter. But that means: they have more of an understanding of the present than of the past (!) and the future (!!). All in all: It's sometimes a bit difficult with them, but we cannot do without them. It was always a dream of mine to have my own newspaper or news site - here it is.
For me, the first criterion for use of articles here is immediate free information access for everyone, meaning no registration and certainly no payment. I know: journalism has to make a living, too, but I'm still going with the original web standard (a web by people for people). Large media sites with registration and/or payment are still frequented, as long as at least the article topics are somewhat transparent and a part of the articles can be read by everyone. But: anyone who hides their articles in the web from the masses today by creating financial or other hurdles (e.g., registration) obviously does not have the (journalistic?!) ambition to be read by everyone - for me, this is therefore certainly information of low quality.
Of course, not the whole world can be taken into account here - firstly, that would be too much for one person to manage, and secondly, I don't speak enough languages to understand the news of the whole world (it's limited to German, English, and French, as well as a bit of Italian and a very tiny bit of Spanish [and then my language skills quickly run out, but at least this]). But there are today some important newspapers of the world who offer english versions.
A list of media that are at the forefront of my considerations: Africanews (France), Al Jazeera (Qatar), ARD (Deutschland), BBC (United Kingdom), Bild (Deutschland), Blick (Schweiz), CGTN (China), CNN (USA), Corriere della Sera (Italia), Dailymotion (France/World), Daily Mail (United Kingdom), Daily Mirror (United Kingdom), Democracy Now! (USA), Der Spiegel (Deutschland), Der Standard (Österreich), Die Welt (Deutschland), Die Zeit (Deutschland), DW (Deutschland), El Mundo (España), El País (España), Facebook (USA/World), FAZ (Deutschland), Fox News (USA), France Info (France), France 24 (France), Google News (USA/World), heute.at (Österreich), huffpost.com (USA), Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey), Instagram (USA/World), Kronen Zeitung (Österreich), La Repubblica (Italia), Le Figaro (France), Le Monde (France), metro.co.uk (United Kingdom), MSN (USA), nau.ch (Schweiz), Newsweek (USA), NZZ (Schweiz), ORF (Österreich), People's Daily (China), RAI (Italia), RSI (Svizzera), RT (Russia), RTL (Deutschland), RTS (Suisse), RTVE (España), SRF (Schweiz), SZ (Deutschland), Tages-Anzeiger (Schweiz), taz (Deutschland), TF1 (France), The Daily Jagran (India), The Japan News (Japan), The New York Times (USA), The Sun (United Kingdom), The Times (United Kingdom), The Washington Post (USA), TikTok (China/World), Time (USA), Times of India (Indien), UN News (World), USA Today (USA), Vatican News (Vatican), VOA (USA), watson.ch (Schweiz), Wikipedia (USA/World), X (USA/World), YouTube (USA/World), ZDF (Deutschland), 20 Minuten (Schweiz) [and others].
For short current information I recommend especially these websites: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), DW (Deutsche Welle), France24 - further: Google News (US, GB - FR, IT, ES - DE, AT, CH)* and Teletext & TV News (BBC [N (register)], ARD [N], ZDF [N], ORF [N], SRF/RTS/RSI [N]). And, of course, your local and/or national newspaper, TV and radio station (others: see in the list above [Introduction]).
* This doesn't work with the Google News app on your smartphone, because the app personalizes the news for your country. Therefore, you must uninstall the app and access the page for the corresponding country in your browser (web search).
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Topnewz (started on June 23, 2025).
World Fairness on danger after US withdrawals (WHO, PCA, USAID)?(UN News, June 30, 2025 ->
Do More with Less).
AI-Slop flutet Social Media(20 Minuten, 26.6.2025 ->
Digital Pioneers).
List of wars in the 21st century (updated -
dt.*, fr., it., esp.).
* The English Wikipedia has two different pages for wars and battles, the German one tries to combine both into one page, in the most other languages there is only a list of the battles - if at all (which is a bit confusing).
Previous Lists: 1500-1799, 1800-1899, 1900-1944, 1990-2002 - dt.: 16. Jh., 17. Jh., 18. Jh., 19. Jh., 20. Jh..
Older news (retroctive).
Die besten Brettspiele mit Christoph &
Thomas(Youtube, 27.4.2025 & 4.5.2025).
A Leftist Dystopia: The Rise of End Times Fascism(The Guardian, April 13, 2025).
Zubrin on Musk's Mars plans(Youtube, April 4, 2025 -
Leschs Kritik).
Wer ist mächtiger - China oder die USA (der Vergleich)?(20 Minuten, 8.3.2025).
Magnus Carlsen with Joe Rogan(Youtube, February 20, 2025).
Fritz Stavenhagen erhält das Bundesverdienstkreuz für seine Gesprochene Lyrik
(Rhein-Zeitung, 7.1.2025 -
Website).
Fiction or Fact (somehow): Baron Troomp and the Last Presidency [KI]
(Youtube, December 31, 2024 ->
Newsweek 2017).
Chess World Championship 2024(Youtube, December 17, 2024 [
Part2]).
Sound:
You'll Never Walk Alone [Elvis Presley]
(Youtube, December 6, 2024 - Evergreen [from
1968]).
Warum wir Frieden wollen, aber Krieg führen(Radio RaBE, 19.11.2024).
KI täuscht uns alle - das Ende der Wahrheit?(Youtube, 16.11.2024 - ursprünglich auf ORF).
We're Creating a Future That Nobody Wants [Daniel Schmachtenberger]
(Youtube, October 21, 2024 [originally, the
whole interview: Mai 9, 2024]).
Aufbruch Afrika [Gert Scobel]
(ZDF, 19.9.2024 -
Lanz,
Largest Cities in Africa [
development]).
Sound:
Chuncho [Yma Sumac]
(Youtube, 16 de septiembre de 2023 - Evergreen [desde
1953]).
Soundiata Keïta et la charte du Manden(TV5 Monde, fin 2023).
Was machen Nachrichten mit uns? [Bleisch & Bossart (schweizerdeutsch)]
(SRF, 29.11.2023 ->
The Dobelli controversy and its
answer).
Angela Merkel - Eine andere Art der Autorität(Geschichte der Gegenwart, 6.10.2021 -
Humor mit Merkel [2000]).
Stop Demonizing Thought [Jason Silva]
(Youtube, July 9, 2021).
Warum so viele Menschen an Verschwörungstheorien glauben(Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 31.3.2020).
I Will Not Be Silent [Greta Thunberg]
(Youtube, February 28, 2020).
David Cameron's Deep Regret About Brexit(Youtube, September 24, 2019 - originally on BBC).
Sound:
Love Me Do [The Beatles]
(Youtube, September 13, 2019 - Evergreen [from
1962, first single by The Beatles]).
Was falsch läuft in der gegenwärtigen Physik [Sabine Hossenfelder]
(Youtube, 14.5.2019 [she's got an english youtube channel]).
Sound:
Axis - Bold As Love [Jimi Hendrix]
(Youtube, October 17, 2018 - Evergreen/Epic Album [from
1967]).
Neil deGrasse Tyson with Joe Rogan(Youtube, August 23, 2018).
Interview mit dem Wendezeitesoteriker/-philosoph Fritjof Capra(Youtube, 18.8.2018 - ursprünglich auf Okto TV).
Sound:
Come On [The Rolling Stones]
(Youtube, April 7, 2018 [from
1963, first single by the The Rolling Stones]).
Sound:
Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be) [Connie Francis]
(Youtube, October 26, 2017 - Evergreen [from
1962], originally by
Doris Day [1957]).
101 einfache Tipps zur raschen Entspannung(Vernünftig Leben, 13.4.2017).
Sound:
Catch a Fire &
Burnin' [Bob Marley]
(Youtube, January 20, 2017 & August 11, 2008 - Evergreen/Epic Album [from
1973 &
1973]).
Sound:
Stellaris Game Soundtrack(Youtube, Mai 13, 2016).
Magnetic Fields as Forces of Mass Construction(Dailymotion, September 1, 2015 [originally on Discovery Channel (
dt.)]).
10 Biggest Empires in History(Dailymotion, April 22, 2015).
Newton's End Time Date 2060(Youtube, February 19, 2015 - original documentary film 2005 [caution: superstition]).
Was ist eigentlich die Botschaft von Weihnachten? [Ernst Sieber (schweizerdeutsch)]
(Youtube, 19.12.2014 ->
Buch,
Audio,
Film).
Sound:
Newspapers [Stan Ridgway]
(Youtube, November 9, 2013 - Papergreen [from
1989] -
Springsteen,
Bragg).
Zerbricht unsere Gesellschaft? [Peter Sloterdijk]
(NZZ, 5.5.2013).
Vernünftig glauben in der heutigen Zeit [Hans Küng]
(Youtube, 1.9.2011 - ursprünglich auf ZDF).
Sound:
Words of Love [Buddy Holly]
(Youtube, February 23, 2012 - Cover by
The Beatles [1964]).
Former Homeless Profiles Life On Street(NPR [National Public Radio], March 6, 2010 -
Website: Invisible People).
Sound:
Move On [ABBA]
(Youtube, April 24, 2009 - Evergreen [from
1977] -
Epic Album).
Barack Obama's Victory speech(Youtube, November 5, 2008 -
better quality, originally on CNN).
Sound:
Worlds Apart [Saga]
(Youtube, February 21, 2008 - Evergreen/Epic Album [from
1981]).
Discours de victoire de Nicolas Sarkozy(Dailymotion, 7 Mai 2007).
The Best Stats You've Ever Seen [Hans Rosling]
(TED, February 2006).
Live: Millennium 2000(CNN, December 31, 2000).
[In June 2025 - still under construction (as always, a new web page is an experiment,
I don't know if it will succeed or not); the site will be prepared to run under a new domain].
